{"id":5288,"title":"Come Before Christ and Murder Love","dimensions":"19.7 x 12.7 cm, 217 p, language: English, publisher: Serpent’s Tail, London, ISBN: 185242575X","date_begin":"1997-01-01","material":"ink, paper","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2024/855","stream_count_app":31,"permalink":"come-before-christ-and-murder-love","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Stewart Home","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"category":{"en":"Book","nl":"Boek","fr":"Livre"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/010/690/large/Artistnovel_078.jpg?1342084978","poster_credits":"(c)M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e The book is perhaps hard to categorise as there is no distinction made between a fictionalised reality and a fictionalised fantasy. Thus it could all be the fantasy of a mental patient who falls in love with his psychiatrist's 'real' or 'imaginary' daughter, and sets out to save her from ritual murder by the 'mad' psychiatrist. However other themes are interwoven with this; mind control, magic, occult groups and the machinations of the secret services. \u003cstrong\u003eRelation of the novel to the artist’s practice\u003c/strong\u003e The video *Come Before Christ and Murder Love* (by Nick Abrahams and Mikey Tompkins, 1997, 6 min 50 seconds) was originally produced as a promo-video for the book of the same name by Stewart Home. The book contains many scenes of graphic sex and violence, and it is one of these which was selected as the ur-text for the Abrahams/Tompkins collaboration. Stewart Home has distanced himself from the video suggesting that it has nothing to do with him.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiteraire synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e Dit boek is eerder moeilijk te plaatsen, omdat er geen onderscheid is gemaakt tussen een gefictionaliseerde werkelijkheid en een gefictionaliseerde fantasie. Het kan dus allemaal de fantasie zijn van een psychiatrische patiënt die verliefd wordt op de ‘echte’ of ‘imaginaire’ dochter van zijn psychiater en die haar wil redden van rituele moord door de ‘waanzinnige’ psychiater. Andere thema’s worden hiermee verweven: controle over de geest, magie, occulte groepen en de intriges van de geheime diensten. \u003cstrong\u003eVerhouding van de roman tot de praktijk van de kunstenaar\u003c/strong\u003e De video *Come Before Christ and Murder Love* (door Nick Abrahams en Mikey Tompkins, 1997, 6 minuten 50 seconden) diende oorspronkelijk als een promo-video voor het gelijknamige boek van Stewart Home. Het boek bevat heel wat expliciete seks- en geweldscènes, waarvan eentje werd geselecteerd als’ur-text’ voor de samenwerking tussen Abrahams en Tompkins. Stewart Home heeft zich gedistantieerd van de video, suggererend dat hij er niets mee te maken heeft.\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1857,"name":"Stewart Home","category":{"en":"Author","nl":"Auteur","fr":"Auteur"}}]}